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Yasmin Roberts Memorial Lecture - "Journeying Toward Racial Equity in North American Psychoanalysis" - Dorothy Evans Holmes, PhD, ABPP, FABP (Live)
Race as a lens through which we achieve psychoanalytic understanding is not universally valued or adopted in institutional psychoanalysis. There is either -or-ism-either we are psychoanalysts who stay true to our traditions, or we threaten, weaken, dilute, or confuse the identity by errantly venturing into the social realm. Because of this persistent bifurcation, there is no widely accepted set of standards regarding race in psychoanalysis: for study in institutes, for professional practice, for scholarly inquiry, for admission and retention, or for career progression. The presentation will critique this current situation by examining how it came to be, the stubborn resistances to change, and will discuss how it will be challenged, with a focus on the work of the Holmes Commission. The talk will offer a view of how psychoanalysis will be strengthened when and if it adopts a “yes and” point of view that recognizes considerations of race as an essential additional element of psychoanalysis.
Target Audience
Introductory ___X___ Intermediate ______ Advanced
Learning Objectives
- Knowledge: Recognize the essential importance of race to psychoanalysis
- Comprehension: Give examples of race as an important factor in a clinical case
- Synthesis: Create a psychoanalytic curriculum to address racial factors
- Analysis: Describe the relative importance of various factors to a patient’s suffering including but not limited to race
Dorothy Evans Holmes, PhD, ABPP, FABP, is a teaching, training, and supervising analyst in the Psychoanalytic Center of the Carolinas, professor and PsyD Program Director Emerita at the George Washington University, and Teaching, Training and Supervising Analyst Emerita at the Washington Baltimore Center for Psychoanalysis. Holmes is widely recognized for her examination of race and gender on the psychoanalytic treatment process and in psychoanalytic education. She has received two Career Achievement Awards from Division 39, and recently the Psychoanalytic Center of the Carolinas established the Dorothy Holmes Fellowship, to be awarded annually to a person of color for the psychoanalytic study of diversity, equity, and/or inclusion. Her most recent of many refereed journal articles include, “Our Country ‘tis of We and Them: Psychoanalytic Perspectives on our Fractured American Identity” (American Imago, 2019) and “Feminism revisited: A rejoinder to Arlene Kramer Richards’ examination of the impact of feminism on psychoanalysis” (International Journal of Controversial Discussions, 2020), and two papers on whiteness in the spring, 2021 issue of the Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association. Holmes has served on the editorial boards of the International Journal of Psychoanalysis and the Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association. She is currently a member of the Editorial Board of Psychoanalytic Dialogues. Holmes continues to be involved in national psychoanalytic organization leadership, including that she currently serves as the eponymous Chair of the Holmes Commission on Racial Equality in American Psychoanalysis. She is also a member, emeritus, of Black Psychoanalysts Speak. Holmes practices psychoanalysis and psychotherapy in Bluffton, SC.
Austen Riggs Center Inc. confirms that Dorothy Evans Holmes, PhD, nor anyone involved in the planning of the CME event, has disclosed a potential conflict of interest.
The views and opinions expressed in this presentation are those of the presenter(s) and do not necessarily represent the official policy or position of the Austen Riggs Center.
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Available Credit
- 1.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
Accreditation Statement - Austen Riggs Center,Inc. is accredited by the Massachusetts Medical Society to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
Designation Statement - Austen Riggs Center, Inc. designates this Live activity for a maximum of 1.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
- 1.00 APA
The Austen Riggs Center, Inc. designates this Webinar live for 1.00 continuing education credit(s) (CE) for psychology. The Austen Riggs Center is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. The Austen Riggs Center maintains responsibility for the program and its content.
Austen Riggs Center, Inc. is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Psychology as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed psychologists #PSY-0115.
- 1.00 ASWB-ACEThe Austen Riggs Center, #1344, is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Organizations, not individual courses, are approved as ACE providers. State and provincial regulatory boards have the final authority to determine whether an individual course may be accepted for continuing education credit. Austen Riggs Center maintains responsibility for this Webinar live. ACE provider Approval Period: 02/02/2023-2/2/2026. Social workers completing this Webinar live will receive 1.00 continuing education credit(s). For a listing of jurisdictions that accept ACE, please visit States and provinces that accept ACE | Association of Social Work Boards.
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